Macs aren't more secure than Windows machines, but they're still undeniably safer (at least for normal people).
I read that and I thought Apple had set up a top-level page. I then saw it is an article in Apple’s knowledge base.
As far as I know, this is the same thing Microsoft does for distinguished malware: articles in the knowlegde base. E.g., here is an old one for Blaster:
Not exactly apples/apples.
That's a pretty absurd statement which, if it even made sense, would be far more applicable in the Bad Old Days of Windows XP.
I don't really buy the claim that OS X is intrinsically more secure than Windows these days.
On the one hand, it’s great that all the variants of MacDefender currently out there will be neutralized.
On the other hand, we’re surely going to see new flavors that go undetected by the update. Apple is getting into the anti-virus game, and potentially starting an arms race. But, what else could Apple do in this situation?
MacDefender is relatively tame. Next time it could be a rootkit packaged in a trojan.
Will criminals stop wanting to scam people?
Will non-technical users somehow get more savvy?
Will the Apple userbase get smaller and thus less lucrative?
